Re: Chainpoint

On 9 September 2016 at 20:41, Vicki Lemieux <vlemieux@mail.ubc.ca> wrote:

> Hi All, I belong to an international research consortium, InterPARES
> Trust, that has good experience in creating multi-lingual terminology
> databases. See http://www.interpares.org/ip2/ip2_terminology_db.cfm.
> Though the database doesn¹t relate to blockchain or web technologies, it
> may provide a good model of process and output for us to follow.
>

Fantastic!

Strongly agree with the sentiment here that collecting, categorizing and
standardizing the common algorithms that secure a block chain is a great
deliverable here.

>From this naturally flows many use cases that these algorithms are already
in use for.

A meta topic may be the use of public vs private block chains via access
control, but it makes sense to focus on the public first.


>
> Cheers,
> Vicki.
>
> On 2016-09-09, 7:52 AM, "Adán Sánchez de Pedro Crespo" <adan@stampery.co>
> wrote:
>
> >Malvin, thanks a lot for providing the references to RFC 6920 and the
> >IANA register.
> >
> >Those two are really valuable resources to take into account, although
> >they could use some updating to include most recent versions of the SHA
> >family like SHA3 and, in the process, avoid naming confusion (e.g.: many
> >people mix up SHA3-512 with SHA512, which is actually SHA2 with 512 bits
> >output).
> >
> >--
> >*Adán Sánchez de Pedro Crespo*
> >CTO, Stampery Inc.
> >San Francisco - Madrid
> >T: +34 663 163 375
> >
>
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